Castletown may refer to:
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Castle town
A castle town is a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle. Castle towns were common in Medieval Europe. Some examples include small towns like Alnwick and Arundel, which are still dominated by their castles. In Western Europe, ...
, a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle
Places
Australia
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Castletown, Western Australia
Castletown is a north-eastern suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern Western Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Esperance.
The suburb was gazetted in 1965.
Geography
Castletown is located northeast of Esperance's cent ...
, a suburb of the remote town of Esperance
Republic of Ireland
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Castletownroche
Castletownroche () is a townland, village, and civil parish in the barony of Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the N72 national secondary road. In ancient times, it was known in Irish as ''Dún Chruadha'', meaning Cruadha's Fort. ...
, County Cork
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Castletown, County Cork (disambiguation), several townlands and villages
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Castletown, County Laois
Castletown () is a small village and also a parish in County Laois in Ireland.
History
The older Irish name for the town was ''Baile Chaisleáin Ua bhFoirchealláin'' (meaning "castle-town of Uí Fhoirchealláin"). This has been anglicised as ''B ...
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Castletown, County Limerick, a
civil parish in County Limerick
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Castletown House
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. It formed the centrepiece of an estate. Sold to developers in 1965, the estate i ...
, County Kildare
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Castletownbere
Castletownbere () is a town in County Cork in Ireland. It is located on the Beara Peninsula by Berehaven Harbour. It is also known as Castletown Berehaven.
A regionally important fishing port, the town also serves as a commercial and retail hub ...
, County Cork
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Castletown-Geoghegan, County Westmeath
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Castletown, County Wexford
Castletown, historically called Ballycaslane (), is a small village in northeast County Wexford, Ireland.
Castletown is in the parish of Kilgorman which is one of the earliest Christian settlements in Ireland. It was founded by St Gorman, possib ...
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Castletown Kilpatrick, County Meath; see
C. Y. O'Connor
Charles Yelverton O'Connor, (11 January 1843 – 10 March 1902), was an Irish engineer who is best known for his work in Western Australia, especially the construction of Fremantle Harbour, thought to be impossible, and the Goldfields Water Sup ...
Isle of Man
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Castletown, Isle of Man
Castletown ( gv, Balley Chashtal, pronounced ) is a town in the Isle of Man, geographically within the historical parish of Malew but administered separately. Lying at the south of the island, it was the Manx capital until 1869. The centre of ...
United Kingdom
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Castletown, Cheshire
Castletown in the civil parish of Shocklach Oviatt and District, in Cheshire, England is a deserted village located at whose sole remains are earthworks. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument
In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a n ...
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Castletown, Dorset
Castletown is a small village in Underhill on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. It is located close to Fortuneswell, on the shores of Portland Harbour, and includes a sandy beach, as well as one of Portland's notable highlights; Portland Cast ...
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Castletown, Highland
Castletown ( gd, Baile a' Chaisteil) is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of Ca ...
, Scotland
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Castletown, Penrith
Penrith (, , ) is a market town and civil parish in the county of Cumbria, England, about south of Carlisle. It is less than outside the Lake District National Park, in between the Rivers Petteril and Eamont and just north of the River Lo ...
, Cumbria
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Castletown, County Antrim, a townland in
Islandmagee
Islandmagee () is a peninsula and civil parish on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, located between the towns of Larne and Whitehead. It is part of the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council area and is a sparsely populated rural ...
, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Castletown, County Tyrone, a townland in
Carnteel
Carnteel ()) is a hamlet, townland and civil parish, about 2 miles northeast of Aughnacloy in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Lower.
Carnteel Village
The village is situated 14 kilometres sout ...
parish, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
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Castletown, Sunderland
Castletown is a suburb of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. A former mining community, the Hylton Colliery was located at the east end of the village; it lies north of the River Wear, and is near to Hylton Castle and Washington. At Hylton ...
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RAF Castletown
Royal Air Force Castletown or more simply RAF Castletown is a former Royal Air Force station that operated during the Second World War. Built near to Castletown in Caithness, Scotland the station opened in 1940 and closed in 1945. Initially bu ...
, Scotland
Other uses
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Castletown (horse)
Castletown (3 October 1986 – 17 December 2017) was a New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse who won over $2 million in prize money and is best known for winning one of New Zealand's toughest staying tests, the Wellington Cup, on three occasi ...
, a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse
* Castletown, County Mayo, the fictional setting of the mockumentary ''
Hardy Bucks
''Hardy Bucks'' is an Irish comedy series, filmed in mockumentary style and following the fictional exploits of a group of twentysomething slackers living in small-town Ireland.
It started out as an online series of largely improvised scenes. ...
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See also
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Castleton (disambiguation)
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